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ellipsesetcetera:

it must have been a trip for Adam when he first met Gansey because this untouchable rich kid immediately unloads everything about his alternate life as a tomb raider trying to unearth the centuries-old mystery of Glendower and Adam is just, “sounds fake but i’m literally so starved of human interaction that i will now follow you to the ends of the earth in search of your super lost and super dead king”

batmanisagatewaydrug:

zablorg:

History won’t have had much record of Diana’s existence because she hung around the war for like 2 days but

there IS precisely One grainy-ass photo of a motley band of generic soldiers and also… a single woman in antiquity plate armor brandishing a sword??

like

what the FUCK is a historian supposed to make of this?

Wonder Woman is a WW1 cryptid

honestly like half a century’s worth of historians probably shattheir collective pants when Diana resurfaced to fight Doomsday. like amid all the Superman mourning and such a very small but passionate group of WWI historians across the globe were emailing their old colleagues and professors in all caps RE: SHE’S REAL AND SHE’S STILL ALIVE WTF 

saintjoan:

the best lines from this article I read for research:

  • “or in the late-summer bloom of academic narcissism, a postmodern literary critic.”
  • “all one can do is weep”
  • “the same mixture of horror and pride that a father might feel upon learning that his 14 year old son has got a classmate with child”
  • “Huh?”
  • “of course Latin historians frequently failed to tell the truth”
  • “squalls of nonsense from France”
  • “we can scream in mirth at the feebleness of the criteria”
  • “the study of Latin prose authors was traditionally regarded as the province of dullards”
  • “ ‘it wants figs!’ ” 
  • “a little innocent rhetorical gussying”
  • “the result is like the diary of a teenager: riveting only to its creator, repellent to others, and illuminating to none”
  • “the ecstasy of parsing!”
  • “to John Henderson the Annals were – well, as usual with John Henderson, who can tell?”
  • “this sad stuff”
  • “the Annales Maximi, about which controversy will never cease”
  • “as perverse as it would be to read the New York Times as if it were a novel by John Grisham”
  • even the title itself, “historians without history: against roman histography” (keep in mind that this article is found in a compilation called “the roman historians”, as if the overall salt content of the writing was not already high enough)